Jeff Tremaine, the brains behind the madcap Jackass movies, has signed on to direct the Motley Crue biopic The Dirt. Focus Features executives have acquired the rights to the film, which is based on the band's bestselling autobiography The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band.
Bandmates Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx will serve as co-producers on the project and casting will be announced in the coming weeks.
Last year (14), drummer Lee revealed he was hoping the members of his group would be played by unknowns, stating, "Getting known actors would not do anybody or the film or the band or any of that stuff justice.
"I think watching a well-known actor play Vince or myself or Nikki or Mick would be weird, because all of those other movies they've done would be attached to that character, and it would be real hard to remove those. There's a lot of up-and-coming young actors that are f**king amazing."
Motley Crue are currently performing dates on what has been billed as their farewell tour.

Motley Crue rocker Vince Neil has become a grandfather again after his daughter Elle gave birth to a baby girl on Monday (12Jan15). Little Hailee Marie is the singer's second grandchild - the star's firstborn, Neil Wharton, became a dad to a son in 2011.
Neil alerted fans to the happy news by posting a photo of his granddaughter on Twitter, writing, "My granddaughter Hailee Marie was born today at 2:28 pm. Weighs 6 lbs 12 ounces and is 20 inches long!"

Motley Crue star Vince Neil has helped raise more than $100,000 (£62,500) to support a rehab clinic. The rocker wrote an autobiography detailing his long struggle with alcohol and drug addiction and he was honoured by bosses at the Turning Point treatment centre in New Jersey for inspiring others with his recovery story.
Neil and former basketball player Chris Herren were honourees at the Rock the Night gala and they both helped raised more than $100,000 during the benefit event at the end of October (14).
According to TMZ.com, the singer offered up a pair of seats and backstage passes for a Motley Crue gig on their farewell tour to the highest bidder. He also introduced local bands before they performed.

Rocker Vince Neil has let slip plans for Motley Crue's final shows, revealing the band will return to the site of their first gigs and perform a fan-only concert at the Whisky a Go Go after a three-night stand at a Los Angeles arena. The singer joined his bandmates to announce their farewell tour earlier this year (14), and as fans await for the second leg of dates next month (Oct14), Neil reveals there are already plans for the group's swansong.
He tells Las Vegas Weekly, "Rumour has it, the last few shows are going to be Vegas and L.A., because we wanted to end in 2016 in Los Angeles, where we started.
"After New Year's, we'll do three nights at one of the arenas in L.A. and then do a special show at the Whisky a Go Go on our 35th anniversary."
Bandmate Tommy Lee recently told Rolling Stone, "We want to finish where we started. There's talk about the Staples Centre and the Forum, though it might end with a 1am show at the Whisky. F**k, we all used to live around the corner from that club."
And bassist Nikki Sixx added, "After we take the final bow, I'm gonna drive home alone with the radio off. I'll go past the Roxy, the Rainbow and the Troubadour. I'll open the door to my house and be like, 'Where did all the f**king years go?' Then I'll close the door and wait for the next chapter."
The next leg of the band's farewell tour will kick off in Oklahoma on 10 October (14).

"That's from being married to Sharon. I'd be shaky, too. I'd be on f**king morphine every day." Motley Crue star Vince Neil is convinced Ozzy Osbourne's trembling hands are down to his fearsome wife Sharon.

Hellraising Motley Crue stars Nikki Sixx and Vince Neil have mocked Justin Bieber's "bad boy" antics, insisting his efforts to toughen up his image are lame. The Without You hitmakers earned a reputation as rock wildmen with their drink-and-drug fuelled antics in the 1980s, and they have given the young Baby hitmaker some tips if he truly wants to shake off his child star past.
Bieber has been caught up in various legal issues in recent months - he has agreed to undergo anger management therapy following a DUI arrest in Miami, Florida, pleaded no contest to vandalism for throwing eggs at a neighbour's home in California, and is still facing prosecution in Canada over claims he attacked a limousine driver in December (13).
However, Sixx and Neil have advised Bieber to step up his hellraising if he really wants a bad boy image.
Sixx tells Q magazine, "Let's give him a little bit of credit. He started with the eggs, which was a little weak - a poor start. Then he got arrested in Miami for drag-racing and that was kinda cool - he was under the influence. Then he got arrested in Toronto and turned himself in. So he's getting better, but he has work to do."
Neil adds, "He has to beat someone with a chain, or something. Or get into a fight with a cop... The next thing he'll get arrested for is toilet-papering a house."

Veteran rockers Motley Crue were soaked on stage as they took part in the charity ice bucket challenge during a show in Virginia on Wednesday night (20Aug14). The Girls, Girls, Girls hitmakers were nominated for the stunt by fellow rocker Alice Cooper and they took up the challenge in front of thousands of fans at a concert in Virginia Beach.
Nikki Sixx, Tommy Lee, Vince Neil and Mick Mars were drenched in ice water by members of their production crew to help raise funds for the ALS Association to help sufferers of Lou Gehrig's disease, also known as ALS and motor neurone disease.
Sixx posted a picture of the soaking online and revealed they had donated $10,000 (£5,882) to the charity and nominated fellow rock bands KISS, Aerosmith and Def Leppard to follow suit and complete the challenge onstage.
He writes in a series of posts on Twitter.com, "@MotleyCrue just called @KISSOnline @Aerosmith and @def_leppard to the ice bucket challenge. You have to (do) it onstage and match our 10k #ALS (sic)... Ps we each excepted many friends challenge including @RealAliceCooper tonight. Do it to raise awareness and money for research for #ALS."
KISS frontman Paul Stanley accepted the nomination and agreed to get soaked during the band's show with Def Leppard in Noblesville, Indiana on Friday (22Aug14). In a post on Twitter.com, he writes, "We accept Motley Crue's ALS Ice Bucket Challenge! Friday Night in Indy. $10,000 and a whole lotta ice water! (sic)."

One-time Motley Crue frontman John Corabi is hoping to play the band's biggest flop in its entirety to mark the album's 20th anniversary this summer (14). Corabi joined the band as fired Vince Neil's replacement in 1992, and recorded the MC 94 with the group.
The critically-acclaimed album was a commercial failure and the singer's time with Motley Crue ended when Neil returned in 1997. He went on to form Union with with ex-KISS guitarist Bruce Kulick.
Speaking of his plans to revive the forgotten Crue album, Corabi tells Philadelphia's 93.3 WMMR radio station, "I may go do that (perform the album) this summer... with a full band.
"At this point, it would be all the songs from the record. I don't know if I can do (them all)... There's one song on the record that I don't know if I can do, but there's other stuff that we recorded that was never released. There's a song called Hypnotized, and 10,000 Miles, and Living In The Know, and Kiss The Sky, and Let Us Pray... So there's a bunch of other songs that I can replace that one song with."

Motley Crue singer Vince Neil has reassured fans the group is not splitting up after its final tour - the bandmates just won't be playing live anymore. Neil and his pals staged a press conference in January (14) to announce plans for a final set of international dates, which will begin later this year (14) and end in 2015, but he insists that doesn't mean the quartet will be no more after the last show.
In a recent radio chat on the Todd N Tyler Radio Empire show, the singer said, "The band isn't over. Here's the thing. Motley Crue is a business, and there's different parts of the business - merchandising, there's music and there's touring. We're just ceasing the touring part.
"But there's gonna be still music coming from Motley Crue for different types of things, and still merchandise and stuff like that. We're just saying that we won't tour anymore. That's really kind of it."
Meanwhile, Neil insists that relations between himself and his bandmates have never been better: "We've been together 33 years, and of course, we have our arguments, just like brothers do. You have an argument and you make up the next day... It's a family. (But) we're all having fun right now."

Motley Crue rocker Vince Neil is now part-owner of U.S. Arena Football League team the Jacksonville Sharks, and plans to move the team from Florida to his hometown of Las Vegas. The frontman is part of an investment group who have purchased the sports team and is eager to relaunch the Sharks in Sin City, which hasn't had a professional football team since 2012.
He tells the Las Vegas Sun newspaper, "It's a great action sport growing in popularity with every game. There are some incredible players. I love the game. It will be perfect to have an AFL team in Las Vegas.
"I sense the city would love it. I know that I will because it’s on my home turf."
Neil joins the ranks of rockers KISS, who launched their own AFL team, the LA KISS, last year (13). Jon Bon Jovi was also a part-owner of the Philadelphia Soul until 2010.